“They’re selling postcards of the hanging, they’re painting the passports brown, the beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town.” Nobel Laureate and Close Biennnial Project Collaborator Bob Dylan

Hey there Artists, Friends, and Other Loonies - the grand circus otherwise known as ArtVenice Biennale 4is ramping up. We are getting so much fantastic art submitted, and as artists ourselves (we can take the dark out of the nighttime and paint the daytime black – just saying) we take damned seriously our responsibility to promote this work far and wide. So here is our first sampler of some of this great stuff. (For regular ArtVenice Biennale 4Entrant of the Day posts and other timely updates about Art World Goings On – visit and like The Biennial Project’s Facebook Page.) 

First up is Farid Rasulov, who represented Azerbaijan at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. “His large scale paintings, installations and sculptures are fraught with apparent symbolism which the artist adamantly denies.”

Farid Rasulov of New York, NY   http://faridrasulov.com/

Here are several other amazing artists who have submitted work to ArtVenice Biennale 4 whose work we wanted to show you:

Marlene Siff of Westport, CT   http://www.marlenesiff.com/

Dorothy Fitzgerald of Lyndonville, NY   http://dfitz.org/

Yvette Kaiser Smith of Chicago, IL   http://yvettekaisersmith.com/

Laura Krasnow of Pittsburgh, PA   http://laurakrasnow.com/

Jan Brandt of Bloomington, IL   http://www.janbrandtartist.com/

Madeleine Lord, of Dudley, MA  http://www.mlordsculpts.com/

Another exciting  ArtVenice Biennale 4  development is the ever expanding list of Extraordinarily Successful and Interesting International Artists who have agreed to serve as Special Guest Jurors for  ArtVenice Biennale 4. Each of these wonderful artist has achieved the recognition of having exhibited at the Venice Biennale in one of the Prestigious National Pavilions. Each of these guest jurors will pick one artist from among the entrants to ArtVenice Biennale 4to recognize as a Special Prize Winner. This list is preliminary – we have just started reaching out to artists asking them to participate and anticipate having many more artists sign on for this – but look what cool artists have already said yes at this early date!

Nigol Bezjian 56th Venice Biennale, Part of the Armenian Diaspora Pavilion, Golden Lion Winner, Venice, Italy  MORE ON NIGOL BEZJIAN

Argelia Bravo 56th Venice Biennale, Venezuelan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
MORE ON ARGELIA BRAVO  EVEN MORE ON ARGELIA BRAVO

Binelde Hyrcan 56th Venice Biennale, Angolan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
MORE ON BINELDE HYRCAN

George Camille 56th Venice Biennale, Seychelles Pavilion, Venice, Italy
MORE ON GEORGE CAMILLE EVEN MORE ON GEORGE CAMILLE

Camille Zakharia 55th Venice Biennale, Bahrain Pavilion Venice, Italy
MORE ON CAMILLE ZAKHARIA

Togmidshiirev Enkhbold  56th Venice Biennale, Mongolian Pavilion, Venice, Italy  MORE ON TOGMIDSHIIREV ENKHBOLD

Horst Uhlemann 54th Venice Biennale representing Costa Rica
MORE ON HORST UHLEMANN

Nizar Sabour  54th Venice Biennale in the Pavilion of the SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC  MORE ON NIZAR SABOUR

If you enter ArtVenice Biennale 4, each and every one of these artists will see your work as part of the jurying process! Enter now before the rush to increase your chances of being promoted on Facebook as an Entrant of the Say and/or included in future Entrant Samplers sent out to The Biennial Project’s  email list of more than 40,000 peeps!

Enter ArtVenice Biennale 4 Here

They say sing while you slave and we just get bored!